Israel-Based Medigate Wins Gold Award For Securing Medical and IoT Devices

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  • Medigate is the industry’s first and leading security and asset management platform for medical and general IoT devices
  • IT World Awards winners will be honoured during the annual SVUS Red Carpet Awards Ceremony Dinner in San Francisco.

Network Products Guide, the IT industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide, has named Medigate a Gold winner in the 14th Annual 2019 IT World Awards in the Internet of Things (IoT) category.

The Israel-based company was honoured for its unique medical device security and asset management platform, which addresses both clinical IoT and general IoT devices. Medigate enables accurate and comprehensive device discovery, contextual and behavioural anomaly detection and clinical policy enforcement for healthcare organizations’ entire clinical networks.

“Medigate has deep expertise in both cybersecurity and healthcare, and we’ve capitalized on this to take a distinctive approach to identifying and securing medical and IoT devices,” said Jonathan Langer, CEO of Medigate.

“This award further validates our approach to helping healthcare organizations protect everything on their network and overcome the security threats that the industry is facing today,” he added.

Healthcare cybersecurity

Medigate is advancing healthcare cybersecurity by adding medical device and clinical workflow expertise to traditional IoT security. The company clams itself as the industry’s first and leading dedicated medical device security and asset management platform.

In January this year, the company closed a $15 million Series A fundraising round led by US Venture Partners, with additional participation from return backers YL Ventures and Blumberg Capital.

The annual IT World Awards recognition program encompasses the world’s best in every area of information technology. The is part of the SVUS Awards recognition program from Silicon Valley in the United States of America.

Winners of the IT World Awards will be honoured on October 28, 2019 during the annual SVUS Red Carpet Awards Ceremony Dinner in San Francisco.